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YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
To be fair a lot of us here on Lemmy are likely to be more principled or have staunch opinions on companies and products - we've abandoned the orange R, and likely centralised social media for one thing.
From my POV, Linus seems to tone down his views in videos, and his writers are the ones doing the research for the video rather than him. He's a lot more critical of companies on the WAN show from what I've seen
Doesn't really matter if he is critical on one segment but not so much either. Or that the blame is shifted to the writers. But, I guess it's just to say whoever it is sponsored segments are not to be trusted by default, and best being ignored.
Like even pro athletes end up shilling and using products that end up hurting them despite being in the 1% in their field like Lonzo Ball and his crappy shoes.
Here in Germany, the national soccer team has been advertising Nutella for decades. I don't think they eat the chocolate flavored sugar-fat as much as they are paid to pretend...